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I love football. I played it in high school, was asked to try out for my college team (a D1 team) by a coach who had seen me playing pickup with a few of the guys from the team, and I have coached youth football since I graduated college. But I hate watching the Super Bowl.
I hate it because my Niners haven't been to it since '95 (but we're 5-0 in the big game), but mostly I hate it because so many people who could care less about football pretend to care about it just to watch commercials. Commercials are bad enough (which is why I DVR every Warriors game and watch it later that same night) in sports matches, but during the Super Bowl, they are 10x worse. First, a game that normally takes 2:45 (at least it used to...) takes over four and a half hours. Second, in a game that is watched by at least 20,000,000 kids, there's a Budweiser commercial in every break.
The commercials are not designed to appeal to alcoholics, they are designed to appeal to people who don't drink. Making it seem "American" to drink Bud. They show a dog and a horse playing fetch, clearly something aimed towards children and others without fully developed intellectual capacity, and somehow it's an advertisement for beer. They tell kids that drinking alcohol is great and has no ill-effects.
Not once in those Bud commercials did they show what drinking lots of beer REALLY does to you. It makes you fat, slow, stupid, lazy, smelly, lowers your standards in sexual partners and causes you to drive recklessly.
We see the news telling stories about how horrible it is that an athlete or celebrity got a DUI, then they show a Miller Light commercial. The hypocrisy is amazing.
What they should do with alcohol is the same that they did with cigarettes. Advertisements only allowed in adult-only publications, no advertising on TV except for those advertisements that show the harms of that drug.
And how in the world are people so excited for commercials on Super Bowl Sunday, yet they can't stand them any other day of the year?
prescription medication is another thing that shouldn't be advertised... but alcohol and pharm companies have too much influence for the FCC to ban them from advertising on TV
I think that alcohol certainly qaulifies doing just as much harmn as cigarettes maybe even more so looking at the total effects.
Wrong. Alcohol is enjoyed moderately and responsibly a majority of people. Its only harmful when one is an alcoholic and consumes large quantities. Smoking is impossible for most people to do in moderation, it quickly becomes an addiction. I know because I used to smoke, started out just one here and there, and quickly became a pack-and-a-half a day habit, that I had an extremely hard time quitting even though I really wanted to quit. Beer? I might buy 2 cases of beer a year....I only drink once in a while, and when I do, I don't drink all that much. Alcohol in moderation is not a health risk, in fact it has been shown that there are some health benefits to moderate drinking. Alcohol is only a hazard when you drink too much.
I think booze is the easy drug because it is the legal drug. Take a look at college campuses~ kids are underage and still have it available at the parties and in many dorms, and so forth. It is socially acceptable because it is legal, but it is still very dangerous. For alcohol corporations, it doesn't have the taboo of cigarettes and illegal drugs so there is a lot of money to be made.
IMO, TV is probably not the place for alcohol ads because everyone is watching it--kids along with parents-- and it is a drug that should be viewed in line of cigarettes.
Just my ideas.
Jeez, talk about nanny states. I have no problem w/the alcohol commercials & I really don't see that many of them unless I've become immune to them. I actually like the Bud commercials they show during the SuperBowl but then you never see them after that.
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